Editing 1642 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]], accompanied by soldiers, arrives at a session of the [[Long Parliament]] and attempts to arrest his chief opponents, the [[Five Members]], [[John Hampden]], [[Arthur Haselrig]], [[Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles|Denzil Holles]], [[John Pym]] and [[William Strode]], for what he regards as treason but they escape and are protected by the Lord Mayor of London.<ref>{{Cite book | title=The Story of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster |last= Field |first=John |publisher=James & James |year=2011 |location=London  |edition=2nd |isbn=9780907383871 |pages=107–108}}</ref> This is the last time any monarch enters the House of Commons.
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The [[Clergy Act 1640|Bishops Exclusion Act]] is passed in England to prevent any member of the clergy from holding political office.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; Royalist [[Endymion Porter]] is voted to be a "dangerous counsellor" by the English parliament. 
* [[February 17]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Axim]] is signed between the Dutch West India Company and the chiefs of the [[Nzema people]] in the modern-day African nation of [[Ghana]].
* [[February 18]] &ndash; A group of Protestant English settlers in Ireland surrender to Irish authorities at [[Castlebar]] in [[County Mayo]] in hopes of having their lives spared, but are killed one week later at [[Shrule]] on orders of Edmond Bourke.
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of The Hague (1641)]], between the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Portugal, is ratified by the Republic's States-General. 
* [[February 22]] &ndash; The Italian opera ''[[Il palazzo incantato]]'' (''The Enchanted Palace''), by [[Luigi Rossi]] with libretto by Giulion Rospigliosi (the future [[Pope Clement IX]]), is given its first performance at the [[Teatro delle Quattro Fontane]] ([[Palazzo Barberini]]) in Rome.
* [[February 23]]–[[March 11]] &ndash; [[Henrietta Maria of France|Henrietta Maria]], queen consort of England, and her eldest daughter [[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Mary]], newly created Princess Royal, leave [[Falmouth, Cornwall]], to go into exile at the Dutch court in [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=To Sell England's Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria's visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644|first=David|last=Humphrey|url=https://erea.revues.org/3715|journal=E-rea|date=2014 |volume=11|issue=4|doi=10.4000/erea.3715 |access-date=2015-11-06|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; Georgeana, Massachusetts (later known as [[York, Maine]]) becomes the first incorporated city in the British colonies of North America.<ref name=Coolidge>{{Cite book | last = Coolidge | first = Austin J.|author2=John B. Mansfield | title = A History and Description of New England| publisher = A.J. Coolidge | year = 1859| location = Boston, Massachusetts| pages = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ/page/n407 369]–372| url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ| quote = coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859. }}</ref>
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Irish Rebellion of 1641]]: The citizens of [[Galway]] seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the rebellion.